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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Enjoy Your Life through Jesus

Good morning, Happy Souls!

Bill Keller wrote a devotional today that Irecommend to you. He has given me permission tocopy his e-mails, and I'm sure he would be happy ifyou would share this with people you know as well.Are you enjoying your life, despite its challenges?If yes, your relationship with God is probably sound.If not, it's time to work on that relationship.

"I am come that they might have life, and that theymight have it more abundantly." (John 10:10 KJV)

Are you enjoying your life? Seriously, take a momentright now, think, and honestly answer me, are youenjoying your life? I am not asking you if everythingis perfect in your life, since that will never be thecase. We will always have things that we are facing,battles to fight, challenges to overcome, that issimply part of living in this sin-filled and fallenworld we are passing through. But today I want youto take some time and reflect and tell me whether youare enjoying your life or not.

In my time with the Lord very early this morning,this is the question God asked me. As I was prayingfor the things I had on my list to pray for,spending some time after that just fellowshippingwith the Lord and talking to Him about differentissues, He stopped me and simply asked, "Bill, areyou enjoying your life?" Without any hesitation Itold the Lord that yes, I was really enjoying mylife. Despite the problems and trials we all haveto face in our life, despite the never-endingchallenges of Liveprayer, the bottom line is I lookforward to each day and truly enjoy my life.

Afterwards, I was thinking back about this seeminglystrange question He had asked me, but the more Ithought about it the less strange it really was.You see, the Lord wants us to enjoy our life. Afterall, the Bible tells us that He came to give us lifeand LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY! This is a Biblical truththat we often forget and I am afraid a promise fromthe Lord we don't embrace enough. What happens is weget so caught up in our day-to-day trials andtribulations we forget that we are supposed to beenjoying our life along the way.

Here is the key and the message I want you to heartoday. No matter what your trials may be, no matterwhat your challenges may be, no matter what yourbattles may be, you can still enjoy your life andembrace the promise that Jesus came to not just giveus life, but life more abundantly! That meansdespite the hurts and pains you may be experiencingtoday, you can still enjoy your life and the abundanceChrist promised you.

I already know many of you have stopped reading andare typing emails that basically are asking me howyou can enjoy your life when you are going througha divorce, or dealing with a major health crisis, orin bondage to some addiction, or have seriousfinancial problems, or children who are living inrebellion to God, or need a job, or any number ofthings that may be going on in your life today.The answer is your relationship with Christ!Because of HIM, you can face all of the problems thatare out there and still enjoy your life.

Jesus told His disciples in the Garden that theywould have trials and tribulations in their life, butHe added to "be of good cheer" because He hadovercome this world. We can never forget that becauseof the victory Christ won on the cross 2000 years ago,we have the victory over whatever problems life maybring our way. We can go through a divorce and bevictorious. We can battle major health problems andbe victorious. We can battle an addiction and bevictorious. We can face severe financial problemsand be victorious. We can face whatever life throwsour way and be victorious because of HIM!!!

I love you and care about you so much. I want toencourage you today that if you are not enjoying yourlife, it is time to START! The fact is today is theonly day you are certain of, tomorrow is promised tonone of us. Each day we wake up is a gift from Godand we need to treat it as such. No matter what wemay have to face during the day, we have to neverforget that Christ is living within us, we have Hisstrength, can live in His victory, and that is whywe can go through the day with that peace that passesall human understanding and unspeakable joy.

I will be praying for you today to start enjoyingyour life. Simply know that it is never going to beperfect and that there will always be challenges toface, hurdles to overcome, and trials to endure.That is just part of this journey we are on. However,because you know Jesus, you have His strength, Hispromises, His hope, and the assurance that when thisshort journey is over you will be forever with Him.

Are you enjoying your life? If the answer is no,then you better start. Life is too short to not enjoyit. The greatest enjoyment of all is when we arefulfilling our purpose which is to serve and glorifyHim with our life. I can guarantee you that if youare allowing the Lord to use your life you will notonly find that perfect peace and great joy, but eachday ENJOY YOUR LIFE!!!In His love and service,Your friend and brother in Christ,Bill Keller***If I can help you in any way you can contact methrough my personal email at bkeller@liveprayer.com

***ARE YOU 100% CERTAIN WHERE YOU WILL SPENDETERNITY? The fact is you will die one day. Atthat moment, you will either spend eternity withthe Lord or be cast into everlasting darknessforever separated from God your creator. To knowfor certain you will be forever with Jesus, go to:http://www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.html

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